United States v. Premnath Birbal John T. Wright

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “an informant becomes a government agent ... only when the informant has been instructed by the police to get information about the particular defendant.”
• “The Sixth Amendment rights of a talkative inmate are not violated when a jailmate acts in an entrepreneurial way to seek information of potential value, without having been deputized by the government to question that defendant.”
• An “informant becomes a government agent for the purposes [of establishing a Sixth Amendment violation] only when the informant has been instructed by the police to get information about the particular defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).